#money

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#writing #money

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#money #poverty #progress #wealth #money

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#hurt #money

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american republic #bribe #congress #day #discovers

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#money

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#control #court #may #money #supreme

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. ↗

— Bono

#money #out #really #selling #something

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#better #campaign #campaign finance #candidates #difficult

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#better #congressmen #end #front #get